| Shade said: I’m surprised at the different opinions on this subject I expected something entirely different. Sorry about the premature post ( I was about to post something totally different from this). Ok let me get started, I would like to say that I for one agree that there is a God, the world that we live in is too intriguingly creative to just be created out of a series of random events. If you think about it for a minute you will see what I’m talking about, practically everything in this world exist with something or someone taking care of it. Think about it what happens if you leave food out? It spoils right? But if you warp it up and put it in the refrigerator it stays fresh. This is a small example of what I’m getting at, the world works more this way the you imagine. In the animal kingdom (I’ll use lions as examples) the male and the female lions mate (not going into details here but afterwards a baby cub is born). The mother then nurtures her young while the father hunts for food, now what will happen if the parents never existed? Now skipping all of the little things that would happen and going straight for the main thing for one the cub would cease to exist. If there’s no parents there can be no baby, why am I saying this well the main theory behind evolution is to excluding the existence of a God of any kind and to bring forth the Big Bang theory. The very idea of nothingness creating everything contradicts everything this world is built upon. If something created this world randomly how would it create it so divinely? Surely an explosion would not create something that is so complex and so detailed from the structure to the inhabitants. I feel we weren’t just spawned here from some random explosion of nothingness , no we were created by God. These are my beliefs/theories if you disagree with them feel free to reply. P.S. it is really late here I don’t even know why a still awake I’m going to bed now but I’ll read any replies that I get later today (I have a feeling that this thread isn’t going anywhere soon). |
I haven't read through this thread, just the last few posts, so I don't know what has already been said, but it is quite clear that you don't understand how evolution works. There are no "random events"; evolution is the result of natural selection. Evolution does not exclude the existence of God, it just ignores it (because it is, by it's very nature, impossible to prove one way or another - hence why the belief is so pervasive). It does exclude the frankly ridiculous notion that God created the heavens and earth in 6 days and that God created Adam and Eve as the first man and woman. Genetic research has proven that homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis diverged from the same species several hundred thousand years ago (confirming Darwin's theory). The Big Bang theory is in no way related to the theory of evolution. They don't even belong to the same scientific field (big bang = physics, evolution = biology).
Saying "surely an explosion would not create something that is so complex and so detailed from the structure to the inhabitants" just proves that you are ignorant on the subject. One may as well say "surely God would not create something that is so complex and so detailed from the structure to the inhabitants." Why not? Why "surely"? Just because you don't understand something, that doesn't mean it is not true.
I don't personally believe in God, but as it is impossible to prove one way or the other, I cannot definitely rule out the theoretical possibility. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. On the other hand, much of what religions "teach" us is demonstrably false (creation myths etc.) and people's blind faith in these obvious fallacies prohibits scientific enquiry. I am therefore a lot more keen to listen to the words of an atheist scientist like Richard Dawkins than I am a religious figurehead spouting nonsense from a heavily edited collection of spurious morality tales written over a thousand years ago (by commitee in the case of The Bible).
There is nothing wrong with believing in God, but trying to suggest there is evidence for the existence of a divine being is absurd.
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The egg came first. Chickens evolved from reptiles and reptiles are hatched from eggs.
